Embroidering Testimonies: Chilean Arpilleras Workshop

Dive into the inspiring and emotive traditional arpillera circle led by artist and researcher Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida
Using materials tied to Blue Light Junction and techniques that are traditional to Chilean fiber traditions, each participant will create a small arpillera that documents and honors their testimony.
Together, we will reflect on the images of political violence we live with.
The workshop will highlight how arpilleras are both a formal art object, laden with innovative and endemic fiber techniques, and a method to identify and self-document political realities using fiber.

• Date: Saturday, Nov 14th
• Time: 12 to 4 pm
• Location: Blue Light Junction – 209 McAllister St, Baltimore
  (a 9-minute walk from the Penn Station

Blue Light Junction (BLJ) is a heritage project whose work centers on the cultivation and connection between people, plants, and place through craft traditions, holistic earth practice, cultural histories and techniques in fiber and natural dye.